On Sunday 07 December 2008, 05:50:54, T o n g wrote:
> What's the default scan order to find the device that contains the "/
> live" directory?
Alphabetic, based on /sys/block/ directory listing.
> I hope it always search HD first, so that the copy found on the fast HD
> would be used instead of
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:03:21 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
>> Right. The point I was trying to make is that there is no Right Way to
>> scan the media. There might be a sane default (actually "fastest first"
>> might be a good sane default), but I see some need for a way to choose
>> another at (bo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Right. The point I was trying to make is that there is no Right Way to
> scan the media. There might be a sane default (actually "fastest first"
> might be a good sane default), but I see some need for a way to choose
> another at (boot|config) time.
to avoid any further
Hi.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (08 Dec 2008 04:28:00 GMT) :
> Right. The point I was trying to make is that there is no Right Way to
> scan the media. There might be a sane default (actually "fastest first"
> might be a good sane default), but I see some need for a way to choose
> another at (boot|co
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 06:28:38PM +, T o n g wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:57:46 +0100, Ronny Standtke wrote:
>
> > My use case looks a little different: My users
[...]
> Yes, that's the scan order that Slax uses too. I like it, 'cause
> faster
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:57:46 +0100, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> My use case looks a little different: My users
> (http://www.imedias.ch/lernstick) have both a live DVD and a USB flash
> drive. Whenever possible (i.e. the BIOS of the machine in front of you
> permits) they boot from USB flash drive. Un
Hi,
> So what was my lesson from there? I think the sanest scan order would
> be to try first the media which we just "booted from", meaning where we
> got the initrd (and/or the kernel) from. But I have no clue how to find
> out that (the kernel should know though). And still, this won't cover
>
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:50:54AM +, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the default scan order to find the device that contains the "/
> live" directory?
>
> I hope it always search HD first, so that the copy found on the fast HD
> would be used i
Hi,
What's the default scan order to find the device that contains the "/
live" directory?
I hope it always search HD first, so that the copy found on the fast HD
would be used instead of slow CD or USB.
thanks
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/
